Ewk had posted a quote from Master Shilo here.
It was oddly cut off and was but a fragment. Honest mistake, perhaps!
I've decided to post the entirety here below, as it wasn't much longer.
Dharma master Shilo said: “The perfect miraculous way cannot be attained through the perfection of virtues; the wisdom of the sages cannot be attained by the ‘existing mind’ (youxin), the ultimate truth (zhendi) cannot be understood through [the concept of] existence of self (youwo), the virtues of the sages cannot be attained through actual doings (shifa).
Only if the merits are expelled, there will be harmony with the Way; only when the mind is empty, there is understanding of the principle. If the mind [has attained] harmony, it becomes one with the truth. If wisdom is expelled, there is identity with the sages.
When there is the teaching of harmony with the Way and there is no intention for harmony, then real harmony is attained (zhen-jun); when there is the teaching of the identity with the sages (shengtong), but there is no intention [towards this] identity, then the [real] identity is attained (chengtong)."
Dharma Master Shilo was also known as Kumārajīva, a Mahayana Buddhist.
He had settled in Chang'an during the Sixteen Kingdoms era. He is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit to Chinese he carried out during his later life.
Kumārajīva is the founder of the Sanlun school of Mahayana Buddhism, which is also known as the "Three Treatise school" and whose Japanese equivalent is the Sanron school.
About this school:
The name Sānlùn derives from the fact that its doctrinal basis is formed by three principal Madhyamaka texts composed by the Indian Buddhist philosophers Nāgārjuna (Longshu, 龍樹), and Āryadeva, which were then translated into Chinese...
The three main texts of the "Three Treatise School" are:
1)The Middle Treatise (Ch. 中論; Skt. Madhyamakaśāstra), comprising Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ("Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way") alongside a commentary.
2) The Treatise on the Twelve Gates (Ch. 十二門論, allegedly Nāgārjuna's *Dvādaśadvāraśāstra, also reconstructed as Dvādaśamukhaśāstra or as *Dvādaśanikāyaśāstra,
and lastly, 3) The Hundred(-Verse) Treatise (Ch. 百論, Skt. Śatakaśāstra, or Śataśāstra), consisting of a commentary by a certain master Vasu on some verses by Āryadeva.
Submitted June 08, 2020 at 08:48PM by Dillon123 https://ift.tt/2ASx9cV
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